The threat posed by Islamic State to global security should prompt Russia and China to give at least tacit backing to an international coalition targeting radical jihadists in Syria and Iraq, rotating United Nations Security Council member Australia said Tuesday.
Ahead of Friday’s Security Council talks on Iraq in New York to be chaired by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said military strikes on Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and other al Qaeda-linked militants would be in aid of Iraqi and Kurdish forces, and at the request of the country’s fledgling government.
“I hope that China and Russia will see that a prudent and proportionate role is appropriate and that our efforts will be with the consent and in full coordination with the Iraqi government,” Ms. Bishop told The Wall Street Journal in an interview. China and Russia are permanent members of the Security Council, along with Britain, France and the U.S.
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Rebecca Blumenstein and Rob Taylor, Wall Street Journal via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/Dmk0LKfN57U/
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